New Group To Fight For Southcoast's Fishing Industry

NEW BEDFORD — With success nowhere near guaranteed, but with a star scientist and a star politician to lead them, a fledgling organization called the Center for Sustainable Fisheries was officially launched last week to fight back against what the group believes are hostile regulators and environmental organizations.

The fishery-centered group organized by attorney and former Mayor Scott Lang elected officers at the organizational meeting of its board of directors.

Its ambitious mission: To be a national counterbalance to the government regulators, government scientists and environmental groups who have been hammering at the Northeast fishery in recent years leading to an officially declared "economic disaster."

"Disagreements between the fishing industry and conservation groups squander hundreds of millions of dollars in terms of under-harvested fish, huge transaction costs, standoffs that seem perpetual, and untold hours of unnecessary conferences and meetings," says the center's mission statement.

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